Day 9: The Amazing Race with baby (Orlando)

September 25, 7:19 AMTravels with Baby ExaminerShelly Rivoli

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The Mickeys, ready to race at the Magic Kingdom.

Click here to see how this series began...

Walt Disney World is even bigger, and busier, than you’d imagined. Wearing costumes of the famed mouse pair, which render you and your mate over 7 feet tall at the ears, you compete with the other Disney-costumed teams in pushing your children in rented strollers from the Magical Kingdom to the Epcot area. Somewhere in the vicinity of the famed “Spaceship Earth” exhibit, you hope to find a Baby Care Center stocked with fresh diapers and your next clue.

But jogging through a theme park with limited visibility and shoes three times the size of your actual feet is not as easy as it looks to the viewers at home. Many contestants are quickly discouraged, and even Donald and Daisy Ducks can be heard spouting bleep-worthy words as a wayward tail takes out a café table. You press on through the crowd, but before you know it your mousey mate and rented stroller with your child are nowhere to be seen.

With a million dollars on the line and temperatures in the upper 80s outside of your costume, there is no time to lose. Instead of milling about hoping to find them, or locating the nearest “Lost Mouse & Child” station, you open the side zipper of your costume and reach for the small wireless device in your pocket. Pressing the button, you instantly hear an alert issue forth from behind the Chinese pagoda. Good thing you brought along the “Mommy, I’m here” child locator, with its cute teddy bear receiver affixed to your partner's backpack.

You dash toward the sound and rejoin forces to find the nearest diapering station, knowing that, whether or not you are the first team on the mat and winners of the small ABC fortune, you have definitely played the game well. Not to mention, you have actually traveled the world with your baby--something most armchair adventurers at home, let alone new parents, could scarcely imagine.

Don't miss the season premiere of CBS’s The Amazing Race this Sunday night at 8 p.m. / 7 p.m. Central. To see how The Amazing Race with Baby began, click here or view previous episodes below.

Previous epsidodes of The Amazing Race… with baby:

Day 1: KangaKid goes shepherding - and how this crazy thing got started

Day 2: Taking orders in Hong Kong with Me Too!

Day 3: Jetlag and the Johnny Jump Up

Day 4: It's a bumpy ride from Beijing

Day 5: Fighting mosquitoes in Thailand

Day 6: Hotel crib showdown, Fiji

Day 7: Did somebody call a seaplane?

Day 8: Mr. Bean and Captain Von Dingleschmingle on Cloud B

Shelly Rivoli has changed diapers on four continents and is the author of the award-winning guide Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children. Find her online at www.travelswithbaby.com. 

For more info: Click here to see more of Shelly's recommended gear for travel with babies and young children, and subscribe to this column to get updates on The Amazing Race with Baby.